The End of It
Kim Addonizio

I have foresworn desire.
 I am become as a stink bug.
 Yea verily I am a roly poly.
 No more for me the hanky panky（把戏，花招） .
 I neither lick nor moan.
 I neither swallow nor spit.
 I'm through with all that.
 Moonlight on the ocean
 is as soap scum（皂垢） to me now.
 Beavers of love,
 build not your lodges in my waters.
 Snails quit sliming your kisses
 over the cabbages.
 I have delivered up my clit
 to be disarticulated.
 Now I'm going to be very quiet
 and wait for that little marble squirrel
 set among the tomato vines
 to run away.